Phoenix-based Greeley Estates have long been one of the Valley’s most prominent post-hardcore acts. Their last album, Go West Young Man, Let the Evil Go East, earned the band glowing reviews from sites like Absolute Punk, and the band’s participation in the Vans Warped Tour helped them garner a national…
What kind of look have you been going for these days? Are you still hot on the ladylike trend? Or have the nautical stripes dominated your closet lately? Are you considering rocking a tail hem in spring 2011? If you can read through that first graph without wondering what the…
Imagine standing at the foot of Oregon’s highest snow-capped peak on a sweltering 80-degree August day. Now gather up eleven of your friends and take turns running about 200 continuous miles until you reach the mighty Pacific. Quite an undertaking, don’t you think? If that sounds like a little much,…
It seems like everyone in the world has a smartphone with photo and video capabilities and we’ve collectively recorded all the non-official footage of major musical acts in existence. But if you think you’ve seen everything, you’re wrong, friend. Sonic Orphans is a collection of lost and found musical performances,…
Perhaps you don’t care for classical music. A large ensemble of musicians who variously play cellos, basses, oboes, and French horns fails to move you; you don’t know what timpani are; can’t tell a symphony from a concerto or a violin from a viola. It may not matter to you,…
There’s that period of time between the end of fall finals and the beginning of spring term that downtown Tempe feels a tad ghostly. If it weren’t for tonight’s Thursday Night Market at Tempe Urban Garden, you’d probably be able to hear a pin drop on Mill Avenue. We’re pretty…
Even if Bristol Palin moves into an two-story brown stucco, she can take one last road trip. We suggest the Historic Women Of Downtown Phoenix Bus Tour. Led by an Arizona Women’s Heritage Trail historian, this edifying junket visits Carnegie Library, Carver Museum, Heard Museum, Adams Hotel, and more, revealing…
Take a few Caucasian Americans with mutt-like Euro lineage and put them on the dance floor. Can you picture it? Keep the image in your mind. Now just stay with that for a couple seconds . . . Do you feel embarrassed for them yet? You will. It’s time to…
Blame the purchasing power of adult aficionados or the astonishing array of assembled talent, but comics are booming. Just look at conventions: Once small regional affairs, today Arizona alone hosts multiple cons annually. The 2011 chaos kicks off with Amazing Arizona Comic Con, headlined by four-time Eisner winner Jeph Loeb…
Two thousand ten was a banner year for politicians stirring up fears by scapegoating brown folks. “A Bunch of Crock,” an exhibition of mock campaign posters and audio/video installations, is a sharp and wickedly funny critique of the hullabaloo. Valley graphic designer and filmmaker Safwat Saleem traces the roots of…
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is much more hip than you think. If you don’t believe it, then you really need to start checking out the stuff. Like, now, dude. And lookie here, there’s a First Friday event that can get you moving on the path toward overdue enlightenment…
Good thing the Midnite Movie Mamacita knows that The Being sucks, or else filmgoers may actually have to suffer unnecessary punishment while watching the heaping pile of suck-ass-ness. Thanks to a newfangled technology called MuVchat, folks can watch the shit flick (the circa 1983 movie fictionally chronicles what happens to…
You’re feeling lost. Your job sucks; you can’t compete for attention from the world with all the supermodels and brainiacs out there; you’re not sure what the hot new coffee shop is and wouldn’t know how to get there if you did. Poor you. You’ve got nothing on Sarah Hurwitz…
Because there’s nothing going on in the South, save for fixing to get freakishly into the pigskin, it’s basically impossible to score a ticket to college football’s national championship whenever a Southeastern Conference team is involved (which has been the case the past five seasons). When the Tostitos BCS National…
Coaches hate playing rookies. This tendency is understandable – it makes sense that a coach would hesitate to put too much faith in an inexperienced player – but it can also hurt a team’s chances of winning. For proof of the need to trust young players, look at the ASU…
The Phoenix Suns probably aren’t making the playoffs. The Suns’ front office made that clear when they dealt Jason Richardson and Hedo Turkoglu for Marcin Gortat and a box of dinosaur bones with “Vince Carter” scribbled on the side. The trade is great for the future of the team, but…
The clock hasn’t struck 11 on a rainy Thursday night in the Pacific Northwest, and Seattle hip-hop group Champagne Champagne is already causing trouble. The trio of hip-hop musicians —- Pearl Dragon, Thomas Gray, and Mark Gajadhar — are inside a club downing tallboys of Pabst Blue Ribbon at a…
Since 2000’s Broke Down vaulted him to national prominence, Slaid Cleaves has released a handful of soulful albums. Good as they are, though, none have ever quite captured lightning in a bottle the way that one did. Be that as it may — who can predict when an artist will…
You’ve heard of post-punk, post-hardcore, post-grunge and, perhaps, postpartum industrial pop-folk. But are you familiar with the rock subgenre known, simply and asininely, as “post-rock”? The term has been applied to El Ten Eleven, the Los Angeles-based instrumental two-piece whose atmospheric, non-chorus-based sound murals generally unfold within the boundaries drawn…
We try to be ultra hip here at New Times. While our staff likes to portray our cooly-cool side, we can also appreciate some good old-fashioned sentimentality. Take Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre’s On Golden Pond. Sure, the too-cool-for-school side of us says this is just a story about a couple…
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is much more hip than you think. If you don’t believe it, then you really need to start checking out the stuff. Like, now, dude. The Arizona Bach Festival is scheduled to burn down various Valley stages for more than a week. Highlight concerts…
You’re feeling lost. Your job sucks; you can’t compete for attention from the world with all the supermodels and brainiacs out there; you’re not sure what the hot new coffee shop is, and wouldn’t know how to get there if you did. Poor you. You’ve got nothing on Sarah Hurwitz…
